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IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON BALB TIE.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

VBe it known that I, C. ULMEB, of Mobile, in the county of Mobile, und in the State of Alabama., have invented certain new and useful improvements in Buckle for Cotton-Tie; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letter of reference marked thereon.

In the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, A represents the buckle or tie, which consists of a square piece of sheet iron of sucient thickness, with its four corners, C C, sharpened or pointed and turned down, as represented; and further, in providing said pieceoi` metal with an opening, D, and a. slot, e, from this opening.

The hoop or hand which surrounds the balo,-a.fter having those ends turned or bent under which are to be caught in the buckle or tie, are slipped into the opening D through the slot e, and when once in, the buckle, pressing the ends of said hoop between it and the bail, prevents their escape. The teeth formed by turning ,down the corners of the buckle catch in the cotton and prevent slipping or moving of scid buckle. This buckle will be made of metal thick enough, and have sucient metal left at the back of opening D to prevent its breaking or bending under the strain it will be subjected to.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure' by Letters Patent, is-

The within-described buckle or tie, provided with opening D, slot e, and toothed corners c c c c, substan tially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing Ihave hereunto set my hand this 21st dsyof May, 1867.

C. ULMER.

Witnesses:

A. W. MARR, J. M. MASON. 

